Manolo says, it is Tuesday time to see what the Manolo is…
The Manolo has been so busy these past few weeks guiding the new blogs, that he has not been able to read as much as he would like. But, he putting that to rights by rereading the David Lodge, who at his best is smart and hilarious.
Manolo says, the Plumcake, at the Manolo for the Big Girl blog, has the definitive discussion about purchasing the boots for the girls with the big calves.
Of the course, the Manolo also has to link to this piece simply so that you may read this paragraph…
It is the mantra of the Manolo Blogs that instead of buying cheap footwear made with deplorable lack of attention to detail by whatever 8-year old Bangladeshi child was cuffed to that particular table, one must save up for the superfantastic shoes, lovingly made by handsome gruff men named Aldo who drive cool Italian scooters and get 90 minute lunch breaks.
So true. So true.
Manolo says, that the infamous metrosexual Osama bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan!
Hair implants have become commonplace [in Pakistan] in the past few years as wealthier urban males embrace cosmetic treatments that were once regarded as effeminate and even unIslamic. From facials to manicures, back waxes to eyebrow threading, a host of services are now on offer at a growing number of spas, salons and clinics catering to the male market.
“I never bothered with this before,” Humayun, 28, said after a facial at the Islamabad branch of Depilex Men, part of the biggest chain of beauty parlours in Pakistan. “I guess there’s just more pressure on men to look good these days.”
The trend may be confined to the upper and middle classes, estimated at 20-30 million people, but it illustrates how Western-style media, marketing and celebrity culture are changing Pakistani society. Five years ago most Pakistani men wore only the traditional salwar kameez - a loose-fitting cotton pyjama suit. The standard hairstyle was a short back and sides. Deodorant was considered unmanly. Moisturiser? Forget it.
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However, in the big cities of Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar, where dozens of television channels are now available, men are becoming ever more conscious about their clothes, coiffures and complexions – so much so that a recent talk show on Dawn News, a new English-language television channel, asked whether Pakistan was going through a “metro-sexual” revolution.
Now all we must do is find the beautician who does Osama’s hair.
Manolo says, ayyyy! Monstrous Flower goes on Sex in the City Rampage!
Manolo says, yes, it is Monday and you are back in the office, once again being oppressed by The Man and his minions, the dictatorial junta of supervisors and their toadies.
How you long to break free of this injustice, to rise up and throw off the shackles which bind you!
And so you begin to plan the popular uprising of cubicle-dwellers.
Soon, you and your small band of revolutionaries will take to the hidden storage rooms and service corridors of the building. Moving at night and during the lunch breaks, you will strike where the regime least suspects it, at the very heart of its power, the executive washroom. By such bold and direct action you will sap its will to govern and gather support from among the oppressed peoples, who will soon speak your nom de guerre in hushed and reverent tones.
With luck and cunning, and after months of bitter struggle, you will perhaps emerge victorious, bringing the enlightened rule of the worker to this backward place.
But first you will need romantic, revolutionary boots.
Mira! Here is the Marvena by Sergio Rossi! Perfect for the female Zapata!
Viva la Revolucion!
Manolo says, here is the best of the week from the Manolosphere.
Mr. Henry, in fact, spends a good part of each episode examining Padma’s hypnotic physique and the clothing with which she drapes it. How can she be so thin and still have curves? Has she been surgically redesigned into a foodie fem-bot?
Yes, yes, I know his jacket looks a bit like the Members Only one that my grandfather still wears. But, no hatin’ on my boy Ernie!
Her paternally-lauded double Ds may have also suffered losses but there will inevitably be incidental casualties with any war.
When a child competes against adults, it can sometimes be a bruising experience, but much more often in my experience it’s a growth experience and kids, we learn daily, are much more resilient than adults are.
love that while she may be twice the size of most of her female colleagues she looks like she’s having twice the fun, too.
As I said yesterday, I’ve spent an entire week watching every wedding-related reality show I could pick up on my cable package.
Isidore the Mauve, would fantasize about having bigger shoulders, so that he could carry around an actual peacock on them.
Indeed this was an unexpected and pleasant surprise.
I think that I shall have to find myself a gorgeous and eye-catching hat to wear at the next wedding…
Manolo says, the Manolo’s friend Linda Grant illustrated her recent comments on the matter of appropriate clothing with the photo of the director Quentin Tarantino attending the London Fashion Week event.
Here above is the photo of Quentin Tarentino at the MOBO awards in London, the few days later. You will notice that he has at least changed his shirt, although unfortunately, to one that appears to have the stain on it.
As for poor Amy Winehouse, to say that this is the bottom of the barrel, is to suggest that this barrel has the bottom.
Manolo says, here are the few links which may perhaps amuse…
New York Fashion Week: ah no, not the toe claw!
Perhaps not the bag to take to the synagogue for the Day of Atonement.
